How to Recruit Unemployed Candidates for #Learnerships
A recruitment strategy targeting unemployed youth can include Department of Labour assistance.
Employers, training providers or SETAs can ask the Department of Labor to help them find unemployed learners.
The Department will search their database, hold interviews and make a list of the most suitable unemployed people for the learnership.
Note: If you are a potential learnership candidate and not a business, click here for relevant registration information.
Learnership Requirements
(a) the learnership consists of a structured learning component;
(b) the learnership includes practical work experience of a specified nature and duration;
(c) the learnership would lead to a qualification registered by the South African Qualifications Authority and related to an occupation; and
(d) the intended learnership is registered with the Director-General in the prescribed manner.
Finding and choosing unemployed learners
- Step 1: Contact the nearest labour centre
- name, contact person and address of their organisation;
- type of learnership;
- NQF level of the learnership;
- number of learners they are looking for;
- start date of the learnership; and
- selection criteria (if they have decided it).
They will let you know if they can assist you within 14 days.
The following links will take you to Labor Centre contact details for each province:
Step 2: Attend the planning meeting
The DoL will search their database for unemployed people that will suit the learnership.
Step 3: Attend the briefing session
The DoL will tell unemployed people at the briefing about the learnership and ask them if they want to be part of it.
Step 4: Choose learners
Related Links from the Department of Labor Website
- Basic Guide to Employment Contracts (Learnerships)
- Sectoral Determination 5 requires that employers give learner workers certain details of their employment in writing
- Basic Guide to Learnership Agreements
- Under the Skills Development Act, an agreement must be signed by the learner (a type of apprentice), employer and training provider
- Basic Guide to Learnership Disputes
- The Skills Development Act provides procedures for resolving disputes about learnerships (a type of apprenticeship)
- Basic Guide to Learnership Requirements
- The Skills Development Act allows Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) to start learnerships only if certain conditions are met
- How To Join a Learnership if you are Unemployed
- Unemployed people must register as work-seekers and look for employers.
- How To Set Up Learnerships if you are an Employer
- Employers must choose a learnership, training provider and apply for a learnership grant.
- Basic Guide to Learnership Agreements
- Under the Skills Development Act, an agreement must be signed by the learner (a type of apprentice), employer and training provider
- Basic Guide to Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs)
- Sector Education and Training Authorities are required to work out and implement sector skills plans and promote learnerships. They are responsible for handing out funds.
- The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)
- Visit the website of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)
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